The Property Management Podcast with That Property Mum

What are you selling to your clients? If you want more people to buy your products or services, you must craft an offer your clients have to say YES to. Because of that, you must implement proven strategies to make your offers irresistible to your customers. In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Kylie walks you through creating your valuable offer. This episode is from a workshop she...

Imagine your accountant telling you that you made one million dollars in revenue. You check your bank statements and think there must be something wrong. Your balance is not even enough to cover your taxes. Where did all the money go?  In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Profit First Professional Amy Bett joins Kylie Walker to discuss this sensitive topic that worries many bus...

Time is your most valuable resource when running your business and your household. But when you're just starting, you tend to take on most of the operational tasks, and before you know it, you end up exhausted at the end of the day with little progress on your to-do list. You wish the days were longer.  Everyone wants to have more time to do more things, yet we only have 24 hours a day. So ho...

While people say you shouldn't be concerned about what others think, building a good reputation is essential to growing your business. Today, we have to think about our reputation more than we did in the past. Not only do we have to worry about how we present ourselves in our community, but we also have to be aware of how we come across online. The best way to manage your reputation is to create a...

Among the many tasks property managers do, inspections are one of the most arduous and time-consuming jobs. Some property managers do them well, and some need help. But now, there are no more excuses, especially when you take advantage of Inspection Express. So how can it help you save hours of time on your inspections? In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Kylie shares this game-cha...

Do you want to start your own property management business but need more capital? The truth is, you don't need a lot of money to get the business going. You can start your own property management company with just a small investment and creative growth-building strategies that you can do with a limited budget. In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Sophie Anapliotis joins Kylie to dis...

How do you juggle life's challenges with the essential need for self-care? Although prioritising self-care may sound like common sense, especially if you want to live longer, it’s often the first thing to go when navigating your busy life.  With many things to attend to and a family to care for, you often feel guilty about putting yourself first. But the truth is that self-care is not selfish...

Motherhood is perhaps one of the best things that can happen to a woman, but it is not an easy journey. It can feel even harder for single mums. There are many pressures that single parents go through that other parents may not experience firsthand. So how can single mums navigate the challenges? In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Kylie shines the spotlight on Louise Mathison, aut...

What makes LinkedIn different from other social media platforms? One important distinction is that LinkedIn is a professional platform designed to help you establish and reinforce business relationships.  From making connections to boosting your brand and generating leads, there are many things you can do with LinkedIn that make it a vital addition to your digital marketing strategy.  In...

Do you know what it takes to succeed at home and in business? How can you manage multiple priorities without losing your sanity? Jackie P. Taylor has some ideas to help you integrate mum and work life (because work-life balance is a myth!). In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Kylie chats with Jackie about the real juggle mums face every day. Jackie then busts the myth about work-li...

When thinking about successful brands, which one comes to your mind? Have you ever wondered what makes that brand so successful? Let's look at the tech market, for example; wouldn't you agree that Apple is an ultra-successful brand? So do you want to know their secret? In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Kylie shares how she experienced firsthand what it's like to walk into Apple's...

It is a reality that most unhappy owners or tenants become disgruntled because of property maintenance issues. Luckily, there is an easy way to handle property management maintenance. This solution is known as Tapi.  Tapi is a groundbreaking maintenance management software that guarantees to reduce your maintenance expenditure by up to 40%. All your repairs are easily reported, quoted, and ac...

Would you like your rent arrears down to 1% or less or your workflows automated so you know exactly what you're up to with any given task? Imagine putting an end to that middle-of-the-night scare again when you realize you've forgotten to do something. What if you don't need to operate a Trust Account, or what would it be like for your landlords to take control of paying their bills? It sounds lik...

Being a property manager has complexities and challenges that can overwhelm many people. In addition, a property manager’s work is fast-paced, with the potential for significant variability from day to day, depending on tenant needs.  Without proper training and support, it is easy for a property manager to give up and walk away. So what support can property managers expect, and where do they...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and website optimisation are essential for businesses in today's digital world. SEO involves optimising your website's content to improve its visibility and ranking on search engine results pages. When done correctly, SEO can help your business attract more qualified traffic and potential customers. Website optimisation, on the other hand, focuses on improving your...

If you want to convert viewers into customers, video marketing should be one of the strategies you must focus on in 2023. There’s a ton of research to support why creating video content is a powerful marketing strategy. However, not all people are confident about showing up in front of their cameras. But if you want to get ahead, you must overcome your fear and start creating video content. Not su...

We live in a world of continuous innovation, with tech companies developing smart devices and incredible tools that make you want to buy them all. But how do you know these tools are what you need and if the problems they fix are relevant to your business? In this episode of The Property Management Podcast, Kylie chats with Courtney Hill, National Sales Manager at InspectRealEstate. This global so...

As we go through our busy lives raising our families and running our businesses, we tend to forget that our parents are aging. And while they don't always say it, our parents long to spend time with us. But how do you balance your time between your family, business, and parents? Like it or not, it takes a lot of work. Sometimes the stress is just too much to bear alone. But where can you go for su...

We all know that property management is challenging, and many property managers leave because of stress and burnout. However, things are changing for the better. We see many coaches, trainers, and business owners stepping up to share their collective knowledge and provide solutions to the biggest challenges in property management.  One of the biggest struggles, primarily for experienced prope...

Starting a property management business is extremely difficult, especially when you are trying to do it all on your own. Without proper support and training, you feel like you are just going around in circles, fixing one problem after another while hoping nothing else breaks. But guess what? The problems just keep coming! On top of that, you also have to manage your household.  If you are ove...

By now, you're all familiar with how stressed everyone is in the property management industry. Burnout is real, and there's a consensus that property management is just too hard. Thus, we see a mass exodus of property managers.  But what if there is support out there, right on your doorstep, that you haven't even used? What if there's available training for your team members, networking event...

The key to any business's success lies in effective marketing strategies. What's the point of having a great product if no one even knows you? Marketing involves exposing your business to people who have never heard of it before. Great marketing efforts throughout your business will positively impact your sales results. It will bring in more of the right people and help them understand your busine...

Over the past couple of years, we have seen massive shifts in almost all industries. Businesses had to switch their growth strategies, change their marketing tactics, adopt more software and technology, and recruit in a whole new way. And if they didn't, they were part of the businesses that shut their doors.  Property management business owners had to match the industry's rapid shifts, ditch...

Property management is full of problems, and the irony here is that a property manager's job is to fix problems. Yet, it seems the solutions to the biggest issues in property management have taken longer than expected to resolve—until now. A PropTech company with a vision to automate transactions in real estate is ready to solve your top problems.  In today's episode of The Property Managemen...

If you've experienced a revolving door of team members in your business, you're not alone. The real estate industry, especially property management, is notorious for high turnover. The reasons are the lack of training and support, poor systems and procedures, and the biggest one is choosing the wrong person for the job. So how do you overcome this challenge and stop wasting time and money and dest...